Nature of Darkness by Robert W. Stephens

Author:Robert W. Stephens [Stephens, Robert W.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Eleven 22 Entertainment LLC
Published: 2020-07-27T22:00:00+00:00

19

Leverage

“Anything?” Penfield asked.

“Nothing,” McMahon said, and there was no hiding the anxiety in his voice.

Penfield watched his friend take a quick look at Kara Carr’s mutilated body in the woods. Then McMahon turned away from her. He pulled up a second contact listing in his phone and hit the dial button.

“Cameron, have you heard from Jenna today?” McMahon asked after a few seconds.

Penfield noticed that McMahon had done his best to sound calm to his wife, but he doubted she’d be fooled. Penfield had had countless dinners with the couple. Cameron was as smart as they came, and she undoubtedly knew her husband’s voice well. His question had come out as too stiff, like a nervous actor in his theatrical debut who was terrified of forgetting his lines.

Penfield couldn’t hear the other end of the call, but McMahon’s nervous expression didn’t change. That meant one thing. Cameron hadn’t heard from Jenna either.

“Do me a favor and keep trying her. Do you have the numbers for any of her friends there?” McMahon asked.

McMahon paused a moment while he listened to his wife.

“No, I don’t know that there’s anything to be worried about. I just need to get a hold of her.”

McMahon paused again.

Then he said, “Call me if you learn anything.”

He ended the call and turned to Penfield.

“Nothing,” he continued.

McMahon turned to Porter, who’d just approached him and Penfield.

“I want you to run a trace on my daughter’s cell phone. I want to know exactly where she is. I’ll send you her number now.”

Penfield watched as McMahon texted Porter the contact listing for Jenna.

“It’s probably just a bluff,” Penfield said.

“It’s not a fucking bluff and you know it,” McMahon said, and Penfield thought the statement had come out louder than McMahon had wanted.

His friend turned back to Porter.

“Call me as soon as you get that location. I also want a team sent there immediately. If you get any pushback from anyone, tell them I’ll have their fucking heads. Got it?”

“Yes,” Porter said, and she hurried away.

“Let’s get the hell out of here,” McMahon said to Penfield.

Penfield nodded and they jogged back to McMahon’s SUV.

They’d just merged onto I-95 when McMahon’s phone rang. He answered it through the vehicle’s Bluetooth system.

“Hey, Cameron.”

“I got a hold of Marie. She said they last saw Jenna at a hookah bar two nights ago. I looked it up. It’s on Old Picket Road in Fairfax.”

Penfield searched for the name of the bar with his phone.

“Marie said Jenna didn’t make it to class the next morning,” Cameron continued. “Doug, what’s going on? Where’s our little girl?”

McMahon took a quick glance at Penfield. Then he turned back to the road.

“Alex and I were at a crime scene today. We found something.”

“What did you find?”

“A note.”

“Goddamn it, Doug. Are you going to make me beg? What did it say?” Cameron asked.

“It said ‘I have her, Agent McMahon.’”

“Oh my God,” Cameron said, and Penfield heard her gasp for breath.

“I’ve got my team tracking down Jenna’s phone. We’ll find her. It’s only a matter of time.

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